Unit+6+The+Moderns

=//A Changed America: The Moderns//= = =

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//Essential Questions for this collection which includes poetry by ee cumming, Marianne Moore and others with short stories written by William Faulkner and Flannery O'Conner//

 * What defines the Modern time period as ‘modern’?
 * Why were so many writers termed ‘disillusioned’ after the turn of the century?
 * How did WWI shape the thinking and approach to life in American literature?
 * What does the idea “make it new” mean?
 * How does change affect an individual? A community? A society?
 * How does literature relay and situate historical events within content and theme?